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US presidential elections

1820: James Monroe

Illustration, not an archive object

When
1820

In one line: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) was re-elected with no national opponent, receiving 231 of 232 electoral votes cast; no campaign literature for the year is catalogued.

Context

James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) received 231 electoral votes. John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts received 1, from a New Hampshire elector; the American Presidency Project notes that Adams was not a candidate [1][2]. There were 235 electors, but three (one each from Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) died before voting, so 232 votes were cast. Daniel D. Tompkins was elected vice president with 218 votes [1]. Neither source lists an organised opposing candidate. The pages fetched give electoral votes only for this year [2].

Campaign literature

No campaign literature for 1820 is catalogued in this archive. A search of the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs catalogue (about 28 queries across 1808, 1812, 1816 and 1820, using candidate names with "campaign", "broadside", "ticket" and "election 1820") returned only portraits, architectural records and items from other periods, nothing tied to the campaigns. This does not show that nothing survives.

Candidate (party) Objects in the archive
James Monroe (Democratic-Republican) 0
John Quincy Adams (one elector's vote; not a candidate) 0

No candidate has an object in the archive, so no side is favoured or disadvantaged by what is held.

James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)

No objects catalogued.

John Quincy Adams (one elector's vote; not a candidate)

No objects catalogued.

Techniques visible

None analysed, because no 1820 campaign object is catalogued here.

Sources

  1. National Archives, "Electoral College: 1820 Election", https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1820
  2. American Presidency Project, "1820", https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/1820
  3. Wikipedia, "1820 United States presidential election" (cross-check only), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820_United_States_presidential_election
  4. No object URLs are listed because no 1820 campaign item is catalogued.